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3D Video Game Collaboration Used To Solve Crimes

Posted by Soulskill on from the world-of-csi-craft dept.

eldavojohn writes "Reuters explains how the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program is funding research used to implement real life crimes in a CSI-like game. They will use IC-CRIME's laser scanner technology and the Unity platform (which recently enjoyed the release of a freeware version) to recreate the crime scene as closely as possible. The crime scene will then be hosted for multiple remote crime scene investigators to explore concurrently while discussing what they see, sharing their data and experience as well as learning and asking questions."

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  1. Similar Experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use to work for a programming shop that use to (among other things) make 3D rendering and design tools used for criminal court cases. The prosecutors found it was becoming more and more difficult to get juries to convict people when evidence was displayed in a traditional manner since juries seem to now have higher expectations in how evidence is displayed due to shows like CSI and the like. This was around 2006-2007 so it doesn't surprise me that stuff like this is in development in 2009 though frankly I would have thought this would have occured sooner then that.

    1. Re:Similar Experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm more concerned about juries convicting just because the prosecutors show up with an animation of the alleged crime.

    2. Re:Similar Experience by MrRTFM · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeh, it makes it nice and easy for the jury to see the glittering murder weapon with a question mark over it.

      Best of all they get XP and rep when they complete the quest!

      --
      You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you
  2. Re: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Incest?

  3. DeltaSphere scanner from 3rdTech by helser · · Score: 5, Informative

    "IC-CRIME's laser scanner" is actually supplied by the company I work for, and it's called the DeltaSphere 3000 We've sold dozens to police departments, CSI units, and such in several countries. More pictures at the website, of course.

  4. Awful idea by l00sr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Reuters explains how the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program is funding research used to implement real life crimes in a CSI-like game.

    So, by shooting someone in the game, they'll end up actually shooting someone in real life? That sounds like an awful idea.